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front of 130Public School 130 is a diverse multicultural community dedicated to academic excellence.  The collaborative efforts of students, staff, parents, and members of the community promote and support a caring environment.  Together we work with diligence, effort, and perseverance on the journey towards attaining and exceeding higher standards of excellence.

Nora's painting from K-4

William's painting from K-4

Today the Kindergarten classes were learning how to use the Kindergarten Class Page to find activities and games on any computer they use with an Internet connection — at school, at home, at the library — ANYWHERE!

In the process, teachers showed the students how to:

  1. turn on the computer
  2. log in to the student account
  3. find and open an Internet browser (like Firefox or Safari)
  4. use a mouse properly to scroll up and down, click links, and drag things on the screen

The activity students experimented with today was Artpad.art.com. It allows students to paint on an online canvas with a variety of colors, brushes and tools, replay their painting process, frame their work, and add their finished product to the art.com gallery.

This is a nice activity for assessing and reinforcing fine motor skills that are needed for using a mouse, which are also connected to writing.

Have a look at some of the student work above, and go to Artpad.art.com to try it out for yourself!


Mysteries in Class 3-308

The 3rd graders have been reading and learning about mysteries. Class 3-308 is trying to solve some mysteries going on in our own room. Can you help us solve them?


Mystery #1:

The Case: A Measurement poster appears in the classroom.
When we came in the day after Election Day, there was a measurement poster on the wall by the door. It was not in the Math Center. We don’t know who put it there.

Crime Solvers; Sadia, Abresha, Andy, Diego, Lydia, and Zehaa

The Suspects: Ms. Fera- She is a Math teacher and comes into our room sometimes. She keeps her supplies in our closet.
Ms. Cheikhali- She comes in our room on Fridays to teach us Math.
Ms. Irwin-She knows a lot about math and she is in the library next to our classroom.

Clues: The poster has to do with measurement. The note on the poster says “When can I have my poster back? I may need it. “

Investigation notes. We asked Ms. Fera and she said it looks familiar. Ms. Cheikhali said she didn’t see anyone with a poster. We asked her to write the words “back and need” because those words were part of the message on the poster.
The handwriting matched so we think it was Ms. Cheikhali.


Mystery #2:

The Case: The Missing Boxes

Ms. Lopez gave us boxes to use for a Social Studies project. One day we came into our classroom and the boxes were gone.

Crime Solvers; Aaliyah, Moeen, Janise, Sam and Victoria.

The Suspects: Mr. John- He said he didn’t see any boxes in our room and doesn’t really go in there. He said John Jr. is in charge of our room and the third floor.

Ms. Pagliaro- She acted suspicious when we asked her about the boxes. She had boxes in her room and said they were


Mystery #3

The Case: The Missing Computer:
One day we found a note on our computer cart it said that we are missing something from our computer cart, when we opened it, a computer was not there and there was a clear glove instead of the computer.

Crime Solvers: Julianna, Zyeem, Vanesa, Janeth, Daniel and Sadman

The Suspects:Mr.Stegman- He helps teachers and works with computers.
Ms. Pagliaro- We saw one of her laptops without a sticker and it had a number 2 on it. The number 2 computer is missing.
Ms.Hindy-We saw her with the same kind of paper the clues were written on
and she works on the third floor.

The Clues:glove,note,fingerprint,handwriting
-The paper the clues are written on
-It is someone that help teachers with computers.
-It is someone who works on the 3rd floor.
-It is someone who works with Mr. Rhyse.

Investigation:We found clues in Ms. Meade’s and Mr. Bracco’s room. We asked Mr. Stegman if he saw anyone go in our room. He thought for awhile and then said no. We also asked Ms. Illardi, Mr. Tantillo and Mr. Bracco. Mr. T tried on the glove but it was too tight. We took Mr. Bracco’s fingerprint but it did not match.

Next we are going to ask Ms. Hindy questions.

Click here to listen to our students explain our recycling fundraiser!

Picture 1

This is a fundraiser that will recycle certain technology for money.  When we collect the money for recycling, we will donate it to the Humane Society to help all animals everywhere.

Mexico Webquest

Mexico City

Visit Google maps

  1. search for Mexico City
  2. click “More” link to look at photos, webcams
  3. switch between map, satellite and terrain to see roads, rivers, trees and mountains

Teotihuacan

Visit Google maps

  1. search for Teotihuacan
  2. click “More” link to look at photos, webcams
  3. switch between map, satellite and terrain to see roads, rivers, trees and mountains

Cancun

Visit Google maps

  1. search for Cancun
  2. click “More” link to look at photos, webcams
  3. switch between map, satellite and terrain to see roads, rivers, trees and mountains

Oaxaca

Visit Google maps

  1. search for Oaxaca
  2. click “More” link to look at photos, webcams
  3. switch between map, satellite and terrain to see roads, rivers, trees and mountains

Bonus

Aztec calendar

This is the aztec calender on gooogle images

 

 

Students in Ms. Pagliaro’s class are showing classes around the school their Voicethread projects.  Here’s some of what they explained to Ms. Mack’s students today:

  • Harry : We had get to the website Voicethread.com
  • Isabella: Put in URL and Passwords
  • Irhad: we had to copy the URL of the picture and paste it into voicetherad
  • Rushda & Ryan: Command C and command V for copy and paste
  • Erick: We had to learn about highlighting things
  • Abrar: We had to remember what to do
  • First we went to Google.com, and

Ms. Mack’s Class was so impressed, that they set a goal to make a Voicethread production of their own!

Here’s Abrar explaining what we did:

Here’s an example of a Voicethread Production

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